Yarty Valley Dairies win Taste of the West Award

I just made a round of tea in 18a HQ and found that - by pure chance - we had Yarty Valley Dairies milk. Which was very exciting because we made Yarty Valley's website for them earlier this year! The wordpress site allows them to update the site with news…

New reviews section of muchbetteradventures.com

Muchbetteradventures.com are going from strength to strength, and so to build on the community aspect of their adventure travel site, they needed a full scale reviews system! When the site launched last November it had the facility for members to leave a review, along with photos, but it was time…

Uploading PDFs and other file attachments in WordPress

If you want to offer your readers a downloadable PDF or other file on your Wordpress blog, then here's how you do it... Just above the main content area - whether you're writing a page or a post - there's a row of symbols. You'll be familiar with the first…

18a.co The quicker way to visit us

When we heard that you could now buy .co domains we were quick to snap up 18a.co as we thought it sounded pretty cool and we loved the idea of even shorter email addresses. Ok we're not Columbian, but .com domains aren't just used by American companies either, and the…

Horizontal spaces between images in Gmail html emails

I just received a HTML newsletter from play.com and it reminded me of something we discovered with Gmail a few months ago... Since the powers-that-be at Google created a new class of font-size:80%, horizontal spaces have been appearing between images. And it looks like play have unfortunately (maybe) fallen foul…

Clever email marketing idea from my-wardrobe

I received a newsletter last night that I thought was quite a clever idea, from my-wardrobe.com. With the bank holiday approaching, they asked several high profile editors what they'd be wearing over the long weekend. Bang on subject for their target market - trend setters discussing styles, with tips and…

How to Spy on your Competition

Everyone knows getting backlinks is vitally important when you're trying to build up good rankings in the search engines. But how do you know who to get links from? One way I've found particularly useful is to check out who's already linking back to your competition, and try and get…

How to put Facebook on your Site

It's now easier than ever to share your website's content on Facebook, which could prove to be an excellent way of getting more visitor interaction on your site. Facebook has released a whole set of social plugins that let you do some really cool stuff, in many cases just by…

Great Logo Design

Getting a good logo design is essential for any brand, but sometimes it's easy to get carried away with what you think your logo should encapsulate and lose any real originality or memorable identity. The best thing you can do is keep it simple and memorable. If you're designing the…

The £20 iPad Replacement

I got quite excited when I read a report this morning about a tablet PC from India which was going on sale for just 1,500 rupees which according to XE.com just now, is as little as £20! It really sounds too good to be true, and for the moment it…

How to Automatically Create a Newsletter

Everyone knows that newsletters are a great and cost effective way of keeping in touch with your customers, letting them know what you've been up to and reminding them of the services you offer. But finding time to create an attractive and interesting newsletter can be a real challenge, especially…

Half Baked Brand off to a flying start, and a feature on bikeradar.com

Great news today that a relatively new client of ours, Half Baked Brand, with their unique range of cycling jerseys, have been featured on Bikeradar.com.  Future Publishing website Bikeradar gets over 1.5 million unique visitors a month, so it's a great piece of coverage for the new online based business.…